The 43-year-old’s saga began in early March before any of the social distancing restrictions were in place.

Schultz started getting sick about a week after attending the Winter Party Festival in Miami Beach, an event that has been linked to dozens of COVID-19 cases. He was back home in San Francisco and had a little bit of a cough.

But things went downhill quickly.

It got harder and harder for him to breathe. He was soon running a fever, which spiked to 103.

“That's when we decided we should go to the hospital. It was just really too difficult to breathe,” Schultz said. “Being a nurse, I knew that wasn't good.”